Today not only marks World AIDS Day, but also marks the 30th anniversary of when the AIDS virus was officially recognized continue reading...
Oscar the cat was adopted by a nursing home in the idea that he would be a source of comfort to the residents, but rather than spending time with them Oscar will spend his day going from room to room. continue reading...
Hey, all you smug skinny people, guess what? A new study has found that the people who are most likely to live longest are… drum roll please… People who are carrying a few extra pounds.As we know, extreme obesity or being underweight is unhealthy. This study is the first to realize that people of a “normal” weight are not the luckiest. This does not mean that people of a normal weight should add extra weight. continue reading...
People are living longer now than ever before. Here are a few surprising signs that you may live longer than you expect: continue reading...
Interesting study, though I had another conclusion, which I will mention after the excerpt:
Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday. continue reading...
Inegy, a drug used to treat high cholesterol could cause cancer, doctors warned last night.
Heart experts called for caution over the use of Inegy, which is taken as a daily pill. continue reading...
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 5 /PRNewswire/ — While occupational risks are inherent in many jobs, workers who make a living toiling in the sun face an increased threat of skin cancer from repeated overexposure to the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. Now, new research finds that workers who need skin exams the most by nature of their occupation — such as construction, forestry, fishing and farming workers — are the least likely to get them.
In the study published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology entitled “Reported skin cancer screening of U.S. adult workers,” dermatologist Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD, FAAD, professor and vice chairman of the departments of dermatology and cutaneous surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, and his colleagues used the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 2000 and 2005 to estimate the percentage of U.S. workers who had ever had a thorough skin examination in their lifetime or during an appointment with a primary health care provider in the past 12 months. continue reading...
Extracts from a mushroom used for centuries in Eastern Asian medicine may stop breast cancer cells from growing and could become a new weapon in the fight against the killer disease, scientists said on Tuesday.Laboratory tests using human breast cancer cells show the mushroom called Phellinus linteus has a marked anti-cancer effect, probably by blocking an enzyme called AKT. AKT is known to control signals that lead to cell growth.
Phellinus linteus — called song gen in Chinese medicine, sang-hwang in Korean and meshimakobu in Japanese — has previously been shown to have anti-tumor properties on skin, lung and prostate cancer cells. continue reading...
